Middle Church

10/21/2026

✊🏽 What if following Jesus means flipping the tables of a world built on violence, greed, and empire? What if our faith calls us to courageously dismantle this empire together?

🔥 Tables still need need to be flipped. Empires still need to be toppled.

❤️ At the Freedom Rising Conference—happening in just 3 days from October 23-25!—we’ll learn alongside one another how to resist empire, reflect honestly on this moment, and dream boldly about the world we want to build together. And we’ll do it all while loving ourselves and each other fiercely, because liberation isn’t just what we fight for, it’s how we get to freedom.

🎟️ Click on the link in our bio to get your ticket(s) now for Freedom Rising Conference 2026! You can join us in-person or online. We hope to see you there.

🎨 Last but most definitely not least, we’re so grateful to our friend David Hayward () for allowing us use this powerful image called ‘No Weapon Shall Prosper’ for this post. Please follow and go buy a print or two over at nakedpastor.com!

10/21/2026

What safeguards can protect a democracy if the person at the helm cannot be trusted?
Will checks and balances protect democracy without the people speaking up?
Frederick Douglass described a crisis of presidential leadership in 1867
THEN IS NOW.
Make your voice heard. VOTE.🗳️

10/21/2026

When leaders test the limits of power, what does it mean for the people?��In 1860, Frederick Douglass reminded us that the Constitution belongs to the people, not a president, Congress, or the courts.
�As America turns 250 it’s time to reclaim the promise of “We The People” and demand that it include ALL the people…..equally.�
THEN IS NOW. Our future is ours to shape. VOTE. 🗳️

10/21/2026

🤔 What if faith begins not with obedience, but with liberation? When children ask why we believe what we believe, the answer shouldn’t be “because we said so!”

✊🏽 Faith formation isn’t about teaching dogma. It’s about remembering why liberation matters and why we must never stop fighting for it.

🔗 If you weren’t able to join us in-person on on YouTube during our worship celebration this past Sunday—or maybe you just need to watch it again!—please click the link below to watch Rev. Amanda Rae Hambrick's sermon now!

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10/13/2026

This past Sunday, Rev. Dr. Jacqui Lewis preached a hope-filled sermon called "Bread For Each Day" from Matthew 6:9-13. If you didn't catch it in-person at Middle Church or online, make sure to set aside some time this week, grab a cup of tea or coffee, and be nourished by this sermon about vulnerability, friend, love, and connection.

Sermon | Bread Enough for Each Day | Rev. Dr. Jacqi LewisMatthe...

10/13/2026

🔥 Resistance is necessary. But persistence? Persistence is an art! And persistence is how we build a future beyond the systems we’re fighting today.

❤️‍🩹 This regime wants us exhausted, isolated, and focused only on the immediate struggles. But the vision we’re fighting for is bigger than this moment, this march, or this administration. The long game is about what we will build…together!

✊🏽 That’s why we need places and spaces to dream bigger, learn from one another, strengthen our movements, and imagine what comes next.

🎟️ Join us at Freedom Rising Conference on October 23-25 in New York City or online. And if you’re an activist, organizer, student, or artist, please send us a DM or email us at conference (at) middlechurch (dot) org and we will send you a special discount code.

🎉 We’re do grateful to our friend and partner, Micah Bucey Ⓥ from Judson Memorial Church, for this incredible word recorded at last year’s conference.

10/09/2026

🌈 Who are you bringing with you to Freedom Rising Conference?

❤️ Big conversations are better TOGETHER. Starting now and for the next 3 days only, buy one full-price ticket and bring a guest FREE to the conference!

🎟️ BUY ONE, BRING ONE: Your ticket is full price, their ticket is on us. Offer ends Monday, October 12 at 11:59 PM ET.

🔥 ACTIVIST TICKET: Students, organizers, and artists can request a discounted $79 ticket. DM us for more details.

🎉 And if you can only be with us for one day, we got you! Individual tickets are now available.

🎤 And don’t forget about the MOTH STORY SLAM. Register for FREE and bring your story to the stage!

✊🏽 Bring someone who asks big questions. Someone doing the work. Someone ready to imagine what comes next. Three days of powerful conversations, inspiring activists, incredible music, and collective imagination.

⛪️ In-person in NYC or online. Get your tickets and register at the link in bio! We can’t wait to see you!

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